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Russian Disco
Wladimir Kaminer
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Description for Russian Disco
Paperback. A series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the emigres in the explosive multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It speaks about the offbeat personal events of author's own life but captures something universal about our disjointed times. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 128.
Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Kaminer manages to say a great deal without seeming to say much at all. He speaks about the offbeat ... Read more
Born in Moscow, Wladimir Kaminer emigrated to Berlin in the early '90s when he was 22. Russian Disco is a series of short and comic autobiographical vignettes about life among the émigrés in the explosive and extraordinary multi-cultural atmosphere of '90s Berlin. It's an exotic, vodka-fuelled millennial Goodbye to Berlin. The stories show a wonderful, innocent, deadpan economy of style reminiscent of the great humorists. [Several of his European editors make a comparison with current bestseller David Sedaris.] Kaminer manages to say a great deal without seeming to say much at all. He speaks about the offbeat ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Ebury Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091886691
SKU
V9780091886691
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About Wladimir Kaminer
Born in Moscow in 1967, after studying drama and finishing his military service, he started a new life in Berlin in 1990. In Germany, Kaminer is now a renowned DJ for the infamous Russian Disco, a compulsory weekly event for young Berliners, which prompted Marie Claire to name him one of the 6 most important people in Berlin.
Reviews for Russian Disco
It's Berlin's Trainspotting, only without the drugs
Sunday Times
razor sharp prose
Jewish Chronicle
Sunday Times
razor sharp prose
Jewish Chronicle